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with a hoe a Bhallac (an instrument of the spade kind) the inferior mode.”
“Exclusive of these weapons no others of the spear of arrow kind ought ever to be used in performing a sacrifice, as the offering is not accepted by the Goddess, and the giver of it dies. He who, with his hands, tears off the head of the consecrated animal, or bird, shall be considered equally guilty with him who has slain a Brahman, and shall undergo great sufferings.
“Let not the learned use the axe, before they have invoked it by holy texts, which have been mentioned heretofore, and framed by the learned for the occasion; let those I now tell you, be joined to them and the axe invoked, and particularly so, where the sacrifice is to be made to the Goddesses Durga and Camachya.”
“Let the sacrificer repeat the word Kali twice, then the words ‘ Devi Bajreswari, the Lawha Dandayai, Namah! ’ which words may be rendered ‘Hail! Cali, Cali! Hail! Devi! goddess of thunder, Hail Iron sceptered Goddess! ’ Let him then take the axe in his hand, and again invoke the flame by the Calratriya text as follows:
“Let the sacrificer say: ‘ Hrang Hring. Cali, Cali.’ O horrid toothed Goddess: eat, cut, destroy all the malignant, cut with this axe, bind; seize; drink blood; spheng secure, Salutations to Cali.” Thus ends the Calratriya Mantra.”
“The Charge (the axe) being invoked by this text called the Calratriya Mantra, Calratri (the Goddess of darkness) herself presides over the axe uplifted for the destruction of the sacrificer’s enemies.”
“The sacrificers must make use of all the tests directed previous to the sacrifice, and also of the following, addressing himself to the victim.”
“Beasts were created by the self existing, himself to be immolated at sacrifices. I therefore immolate thee, without incurring any sin in depriving thee of life.”
“Let the sacrificer then name the Deity to whom the sacrifice is made, and the purpose for which it is performed; and by the above text immolate the victim, whose face is to be towards the north, or else let the sacrificer turn his own face to the north, and the victim’s to the east; Having immolated the victim, let him without fail mix salt &c., as before mentioned with the blood.”
“The vessel in which the blood is to be presented, is to be according to the circumstances of the offerer, of gold, silver, copper, brass, or leaves sewed together, or of earth, or of tutenague, or of any of the species of wood used in sacrifices.”